One possibility is your power profile. Laptops generally default to turning off peripherals to save power. Check the nic and see if it is set to "Allow Windows to turn off this device".
Just a thought. -- noonie On 19/04/2014 11:53 AM, "Stephen Price" <step...@perthprojects.com> wrote: > Hey all, > > I'm using RDP to connect to my laptop (and use multiple monitors) and I > have a strange issue where when I first try to connect it gives me a > message showing the machine is not available. This happens if I am logged > out. I've set services that seem appropriate to start automatically but no > go. The weird part is if I use teamviewer to connect to the laptop, log in, > then I can successfully RDP in. > I thought I'd connect and check what services were running remotely using > the services mmc and it wouldn't let me connect but then my RDP worked. > Perhaps there's a service I missed but if anyone has come across this > before, love to hear. > > cheers, > Stephen >